Description: It’s blue! It’s thin! It’s the Pro Mini! This is a 5V Arduino running the 16MHz bootloader. Pro Mini does not come with connectors populated so that you can solder in any connector or wire with any orientation you need. We recommend first time Arduino users start with the Uno R3. It’s a great board that will get you up and running quickly. The Arduino Pro series is meant for users that understand the limitations of system voltage (5V), lack of connectors, and USB off board.

We really wanted to minimize the cost of an Arduino. In order to accomplish this we used all SMD components, made it two layer, etc. This board connects directly to the FTDI Basic Breakout board and supports auto-reset. The Arduino Pro Mini also works with the FTDI cable but the FTDI cable does not bring out the DTR pin so the auto-reset feature will not work. There is a voltage regulator on board so it can accept voltage up to 12VDC. If you’re supplying unregulated power to the board, be sure to connect to the “RAW” pin and not VCC.

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Small and powerful, does exactly what you would expect of it (Posted on 12/07/2017)

Review by Bernd
verified purchaser

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100

Nifty little module for prototyping and using this as a convenient development breakout for the SMD AVR processor. (Posted on 18/11/2016)

Review by Ken -
Great value but needs documentationverified purchaser

Rating

80

Great price and it does everything it is supposed to. But I had to hunt around to find a pinout diagram which explained the alternative pins e.g. SCL, SDA (Posted on 2/12/2014)

Review by Stefan -
Great little productverified purchaser

Rating

100

Works very well and is absolutely tiny. (Posted on 28/09/2014)

Review by Stephen -
Tiny and great valueverified purchaser

Rating

100

Easy to have a couple spare lying around, so they can be thrown into a project whenever they are needed. (Posted on 19/07/2014)

Review by benster -
Works just fine

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100

Great value for money. (Posted on 13/05/2013)

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